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Bethany is a supercity / megacity planet—its surface blanketed almost entirely by dense urban sprawl, yet still threaded with an unusual abundance of green: forested belts, grasslands, mountain parkland, and open coastline woven directly into the city grid. Home to roughly 25 billion inhabitants, Bethany is the native world of the Bethian people and the capital and government headquarters of the Sun Jin Empire.
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Bethany is a rare kind of megacity world: fully urbanized, but never sterile. Where Amber Krowe curates its sprawl into vertical stacks and engineered ribbons of control, Bethany lets the green survive—forest corridors, grassland reserves, mountain parkland, and coastal zones are stitched through the city rather than paved over. The result is a planet that reads as densely populated and industrious, yet livable and open in a way the Alliance's core worlds rarely allow.
Bethany's defining contrast is city and green in the same frame. The urban layer is continuous—metroplexes bleeding into one another across continents—but it is broken up by deliberate ecological seams: grassland reserves, forested belts, mountain ranges left as parkland and structural backbone, and oceans that carry shipping while remaining visibly alive.
Rather than pushing wilderness to the edges, Bethany folds it inward. Green space is not a luxury district here but a structural feature of how the planet was built, giving even its densest zones a sense of air and light. That balance of scale and livability is central to the planet's identity.
Bethany is the homeworld of the Bethian people, a feline-origin race native to the planet. As the most populous species within the Sun Jin Empire's multi-species coalition, Bethians form much of its demographic and institutional backbone, and their capital-world norms shape what the Empire considers “normal” across its bureaucracy, uniformed services, and everyday civic life.
Long before the war, Bethany was a central trading hub for the outer rim—a wealthy, well-connected crossroads world that eventually fell under Systems Alliance occupation. That occupation was ultimately broken when Bethany became the site of the first major offensive of Sun Jin Kaisara's rebellion.
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This is only a quick overview — for the full account of the offensive, its causes, and its aftermath, see Liberation of Bethany.
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